Word: blue-collar
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...economy and indeed U.S. society; what will happen if millions of youths turn against the material rewards and the competitiveness that have motivated so much American progress? For the present, alternative careers appeal primarily to upper-and middle-class students, who tend to take affluence for granted. Children from blue-collar backgrounds, often the first in their families to go to college, are more often satisfied with conventional jobs; moreover, they need them. This circumstance has led Sociologists Peter and Brigitte Berger to suggest that if what Charles Reich calls "the greening of America" goes on apace, it may shade...
...middle-class youth drop out from the pursuit of influence and affluence, the children of the blue-collar workers may become the new professional class. "Should Yale become hopelessly 'greened.' Wall Street will get used to recruits from Fordham or Wichita State," say the Bergers. To a limited extent, this "circulation of elites" has already begun. This is due, however, not only to America's greening, but also to a conscious effort by Establishment institutions to open more doors. This year, for example, medical schools have accepted a more representative cross section of applicants than ever before...
...belief that such developments should be dispersed throughout the city has divided even the black community. When Stokes announced plans for a low-cost housing project in Lee-Seville, a middle-class black neighborhood, the council blocked Stokes' proposals. An attempt to put public housing into the white, blue-collar west side was similarly blocked...
...Diego State College. His 43 students are heterogeneous, to say the least. Because of careful recruiting, tuition of $65 a month and scholarships, one-third of the kids are progeny of lawyers and professors; one-third are children of poor people and welfare recipients. The rest are children of blue-collar workers, as well as offspring of rock musicians, students and craftsmen...
...local Lock heed plant is one of spacious melancholy, like the first-class ballroom on the Ti tanic after most of the passengers had jumped ship. At nearby Mountain View, apartment owners are offering $50 to tenants who find friends to fill the va cancies. As jobless blue-collar workers and engineers have used up their un employment benefits, the rolls of food-stamp recipients in San Jose, Calif., have grown from 9,000 to 37,000 in the past year. Unemployment in the Se attle area is now 13.1%. Hundreds of workers dismissed by United Aircraft have left Hartford...